Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-08-27

Talking aboutip replied The little French
man, bis eyes still fixed upon Umslopogans
whose general appearance seemed 10 fascinats
him; why, talk OF himp--and be rudoly
polnted-Fof CO monsieur noir.n
Az this everybody began to laugh, and I'm.
slopogaas, perceiying that he was the object
OF remark, frowned ferocionsly, for he had q
most lordly dislike OF anything like personal
liberty. Q
"Parbleul' said Alphonse, ahe Is angered---
he makes the grimace like not his air. |
vanish" And be did with considerable rapid
ity.
Mr. Mackenzie joined heartily in the shout
OF laughter which we INDUCED in. "He Is q
queer Observation-Disclosures he said. aBy
and by win tell you his history; In the mean
while let Us try his cooking"
Might ask" said Sir Henry, after we had
eaten most excellent dinner, chow you came
to have French cook In these widsle
"Oh," answered Mrs Mackenzie, 9he ar
rived here Of his own accord about year
ago, and asked to be taken into our service.
he had got into some trouble in France, and
fed to Zanzibar, where no found an ap-
plication had been made by the French gov.
eminent for his extradition. Whereupon hs
rushed OFT up country, and fell in, wheE
nearly starved, with our caravan of men,
who were bringing us our annual supply OF
goods, and was brought on here. You should
get him to tell you The story
When dinner was over we lit our pipes, anil
Sir Henry proceeded to give our host a
description Of our journey up here, ovor
which he looked very grave.
ut Is evident TO me-" he said, "that those
rascally Nasal arc following you. and am
very thankful that you have reached this
house In safety. / do not think that they
will dare to attack you here. It is unfor-
tunate, though, that nearly all my men have
gone down TO the coast with ivory and goods.
There are 200 Of them in the caravan, and the
consequence Is that have not more than
twenty men available for defensive purposes
in case they should attack u.s. But, still,
will just give few orders;n and calling
black man who was lettering about outside
in the garden, he went to the window and adj
dressed him III Swahili dialect The man
listened, and then salutod and departed.
81 am sure devouS'y hope that we shall
bring no such calamity upon you, said /, anx-
iously, when he had taken his seat again.
Rather than bring tfo bloodthirsty villains
about your ears, We will move ON and take
our chance.n
"You will do nothing Of tho sort. II the
Nasal come they come, and there is an end
on 1t; and | think we can give them pretty
warm greeting. l would not show any man
the door for all the Nasal in the world.n
"That reminds me-" said, "the consul at
Lamu told me that he had letter from you,
In which you said that man had arrived here
who reported that he had como across
white people In the interior. Do you think
that there was any truth In his story9 ask
because have once or twice in my life heard
rumors from natives who have come down
from the far north of the existence of such
race"
Mr.. Mackenzie. by way OF answer, went
out OF the room and returned. bringing with
him most curious sword. 1t was long, and
all the blade, which was very thick and
heavy, was, to within quarter Of an inch Of
the cutting edge, worked into an ornamental
pattern exactly as we work soft wood with
fretsaw, the steel, however, being invariably
pierced In such O way as not to interfere
with the strength OF the sword. Thisin itself
was sufficiently curious, but what was still
more SO was that all the edges OF the hollow
spaces cut through the substance Of the
blade were most beautifully inlaid with gold,
which was in some way that I cannot under
stand welded on to the steel.
"Then,n said Mr.. Mackenzie, "did you ever
wee q sword like that2"
We al examined and shook our heads.
swell, / have got it to show you, because
his is what the man who said he had seen
,he white people brought with him, and be-
:auso it does more or less give an air Of truth
% what should otherwise have set down as
| lie. Look here; will tell you all that /
NOW about the matter, which is not much. |
One afternoon, just before sunset, was sit
ing on the veranda, when poor, miserable,
tarved looking man came imping up and |
quatted down before me. / asked him |
yherc lie came from and what he wanted,
md thereon he plunged into long, rambling |
about how ho belonged to tribe |
ar il the north, and how his tribe was de-
troyed by another tribe and he with few
ther survivors driven still further north, !
vast a lake named Laga Thence, it appears,
10 made his way to another lake that lay up |
u the mountains, % lake without bottom |
10 called it, and here his wife and brother
led Of EN- infectious sicxness-probably |
the people drove him out
f their villages into the wilderness, where he
wandered miserably over mountains for ten
avs, after which he got into dense thorn
crest, and was ono day found there by some
White men who were hunting, and who took
i'm to o place where all the people were
White and lived in stone houses Here he re-
NAMED week shut up in house, till one
light man with q white beard whom he
Understood to be medicine man. came and
1spected him, after which no was led off and
aiken through the thorn forest to the con-
mes Of the wilderness, and given food and
his sword lat least SO be said) and turned
oose.n
"Well,' said Sir Henry, who had been
stening with breathlesS interest, "and what
id he do then2"
"Ohl he seems, according to his account, to
ave gone through sufferings and hardships
and to have lived for weeks on
DOTS and berries, and such things as he could
atch and kill But somehow he did live,
nd at last by slow degrees made his way
,uth and reached this place. What the
etails of his journey were never learned,
Or told him to return on the morrow, bid
ing one OF my headmen look after him for
le night The headman took him away,
ut the poor man had the itch SO badly that
,e headmans wife would not have him in
,e hut for fear of catching it, SO he was
;vau n hlantyet md told IN Qlaay, ,,.,te;da Az